We address the issue of the relevance in the transnational arena of the concept of patriotic vigilance, as expressed by French Minister Arnaud Montebourg in 2014. Firstly, we examine the globalization paradox with its underpinnings in the literature and its illustration through the recent Alstom...

Argentina's "default" of its rescheduled debt has brought out the multiple vested interests or stakeholders involved. This includes not only Argentina and the vulture funds which are insisting on prioritized full payments, but also the majority bondholders who agreed to rescheduling and the...

In this article, we examine the emergent global ICO landscape through financial and regulatory lenses. In a first part, we provide the conceptual definitions, and trace back the recent emergence of this new way of financing start-ups through cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology and ICOs. We...

We set out to examine the relevance of blockchain technology for healthcare management in general, and for consumer medical electronics and the portable devices connected in particular. After considering the shortcomings of private and centralized organizations for access to patient data in a...

This paper aims to put forward an original conceptual framework and a renewed perspective on monetary analysis applied to transnational corporations based on some of the views of Bernard Schmitt developed over the last forty years. After reviewing the terminological principles of the theory of...

The theory of endogenous money is the cornerstone of Post-Keynesian economics, which dates back to the pioneering writings of authors such as J. Robinson, Kaldor and Kalecki. Second generation Post-Keynesians such as Paul Davidson and Basil Moore have clearly drawn the boundaries of...

In this paper, we single out the existence of meaningful complementarities between the French and Moldovan higher education systems. In spite of systemic heterogeneity characterizing the two countries, we show that they would both benefit from closer cooperation in the field of higher education...

Can students examine the discursive strategies employed by economists so that the former think critically about the underlying theoretical forces described by the latter? Are economic processes ontologically dependent on the narratives used by economists to account for real phenomena? In this...

In this paper, we aim at conceptualizing anew the shadow financial system with the introduction of an institutional sector composed of all the unregulated non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) that fall outside the regulatory scope of central banks. This new sector is first defined as a...

In this paper, we aim at the introduction of an additional macroeconomic sector defined as a broad accounting category in the stock-flow consistent framework developed by Lavoie and Godley. Starting from the idea that many financial services supplied by commercial banks today do not fit into the...